Tune: St Anne
('O God our help in ages past')
Partly based on Isaiah 65 v.5
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Stand not by me in person, be
A distance off from me (2 metres)
Though meaning it physically
Yet not spiritually
For 'tis for good of all concerned
We have guidance discerned
Put into practice, our part play
Longing for healing days
Not in sense, Come not near me for
I holier for sure
Than you are, do not me approach
Or I thus you reproach
Yet truth, there are favourites none
Impartial to each one
Is the Lord, and forgiven we
Are, if penitent, see
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: March 31st, 2020 02:50
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre, expressing some more thoughts of the current situation.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments3
Nice one Orchidee.... I have started to imagine u playing that old Sting/Police song..." don't stand... don't stand.... don't stand so close to me ".
Did you notice i said playing it, not singing it.
Thanks Dusk. Phew, yes, who can bear my singing on top of everything else - even if there was no health crisis?! lol.
Lovely read Orchi.
Thanks Fay.
Good one Orchi and an important message, physical distancing NOT social distancing is the way to go and the way most people are when I go for my daily walk, all greet each other.
Andy
Thanks Andy. It can be painful moving away from people. We might say 'Have they got the plague then?' And the answer is 'Yes indeed - potentially'. I'm sure folk understand, as you say. WE may say 'move back from me' or THEY may say it to us, e.g. unintentionally getting near someone to find the end of a spaced-out queue in the shops. It's like a mine-field, going shopping at present..
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